Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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Sometimes our local weekly newspaper lets me knock out a piece for them. My latest, brief profiles of the local women who made a difference in Eugene, Oregon, was a delight to research. While all of the women I wrote about are inspiring, I’m deeply intrigued by Alice Hall Chapman. She was a physician and…
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Think about this: Back in 2004, there were about 34 reporters working at The Register-Guard. Today there are nine. There is no question that Eugene’s hometown newspaper is not the publication it once was. People here shake their heads and talk about the last straw that made them cancel their subscriptions. But that’s shortsighted. Canceling…
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Shout out to historian and newspaper columnist Patricia Ann Edwards for capturing this great quote in her history of Lorane Oregon, “Sawdust and Cider,” now sadly out of print. She’s quoting farmer and former Lane County Commissioner Oral Crowe: “This soil is so bad that a man couldn’t raise hell on it with seven naked…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 